My blog

Adventures at Pinewood.

Written on:Friday, December 18, 2009

Richard conducting strings in studio.

It's been a little while since I put pen to paper (or whatever the digital equivalent is) to tell you of my adventures so I do apologise and I will try and be more frequent in my blogging in future. That could be my New Years resolution.

Last time I wrote I had just played on a recording in composer/pianist Ronnie Smith's house. A wonderful experience, memorable for its amusing anecdotes as much as it's fabulous music. I will never look at frozen pizza in the same way. In the mixing stage it was decided that some of the tracks would


Recording with Ronnie

Written on:Thursday, November 05, 2009

Microphone.

I played on a recording by pianist/composer Ronnie Smith recently. It was a terrific and a somewhat novel experience. Ronnie had decided to record in his house, he has a fabulous piano and decided that he wanted to use it on his recording. Ronnie has a beautiful big house situated in Hertfordshire but to convert it into a recording studio was far from easy, in fact for recording engineer/expert Matt Howe in must have been a colossal undertaking. Starting on the Friday, with numerous trips back and forth to Pinewood studios, his house and va


My Romance CD.

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